BOBCAT TRAPPING
Bobcats are opportunistic predators, feeding on poultry, sheep, goats, house cats, and game animals, and, rarely, calves. Bobcats can easily kill domestic and wild turkeys, usually by climbing into their night roosts. In some areas, bobcats can prevent the successful introduction and establishment of wild turkeys or can deplete existing populations.
Bobcats are also detrimental to whitetail deer populations. Although it is rare that a bobcat would attack or kill a healthy adult deer, they do effect fawn recruitment by locating and killing newborn fawns during late spring and early summer.
By controlling the bobcat population on your property, wild turkey and deer fawns will have a much better chance of survival. Upland game birds, such as quail and grouse, will also have much better nesting success rates if bobcats populations are controlled by trapping. The trapping should be done in the late fall and winter.
